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, Patented Aug. 23, I898. E. J. BROOKS.

SEAL. (Application and m 2, 1898.).

(No Model.)

l/Witnesses:

lJNrr-nn- STATES EDWARD J. BROOKS, OF EAST ORANGE, NEl/V JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE E. J. BROOKS & COMPANY, OF NElV YORK, N. Y.

SEAL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 609,495, dated August 23, 1898. Application filed May 2, 1898. Serial No. 679,495. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD J. BROOKS, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of East Orange, in the State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Seals, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to those press-fastened seals of lead and wire in which the seal part has a recessed face, within which the ends of the shackle are assembled preparatory to the pressing operation, to be covered by the inturned walls of said recess, so as to be efiectively secured and guarded against being tampered with when the seal is pressed.

Seals of above description are set forth in my previous specifications, forming part of United States Letters Patent No. 294,576, dated March 4, 1884; No. 368,126, dated August 0, 1887; Nos. 373,007 and 373,008, dated November 8, 1887; No. 481,892, dated August 30, 1892; No. 512,274, dated January 9, 1894; No. 521,137, dated June 5, 1894, and No.

. 521,758, dated June 19, 1894.

The present invention consists in certain novel features of construction in the seal part and the combination'therewith of a specific shackle, as hereinafter set forth and claimed. The objects are to provide for more securely fastening the respective ends of the shackle by means which facilitate preparing the seal for the seal-press.

A sheet of drawings accompanies this specification as part thereof.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a preferred shackle detached. Fig. 2 is a face view of the seal part detached. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 3, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a face view of the seal as it leaves the factory. Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5 5, Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a perspective' view of the seal ready for the press. Figs. 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 are perspective views of modified seals constructed on the same prin ciple, and Fig. 12 is aface view with appended edge view illustrating additional modifications.

Like letters and numbers refer to likeparts in all the figures.

The improved seal is composed of a flexible shackle A of suitable wire, having anchoring angles to that end of the shackle A upon which the seal part B is made fast and'a loopshaped anchoring device 1, fastened against the back of thecentral recess 4 in the face of the seal to preliminarily attach the shackle without casting the lead on the wire and to resist torsional strain, as well as to prevent the withdrawal of the shackleend. In the improved seal represented by Figs. 1 to 6, inclusive, the anchoring devices 1 and 2 of the shackle A are both of them rigid loops. The transverse wall 3 within the central recess 4 of the seal part B is united at its ends with a circular main wall-5, beveled externally and having in line with the slot a an embrasure b in the form of an open slot, in line with which the back of the recess 4 is provided with a pair of projections c in the seal part, Figs. 2 and 3,'as it leaves the mold. The front of the wall 3 is conveniently arched, as shown in Figs. 3, 5, and 6, so as to obviate making the main wall 5 of equal height, thus saving lead. The anchoring-loop 1 is' passed through the slot a and turned at right angles, so as to lie fiat against the back of the recess 4, with its shank between said projections c and within the embrasure Z). Said projections 0 are then upset, so as to overlie said shank and fasten back the shackle end, thus rigidly and very securely attaching the seal part to the shackle and locating said loop behind the metal of the transverse wall 3 in the press fastened seal. In preparing the seal for the press the shackle A, after threading it through oar-door staples or the like, is bent back and its loop 2 passedthrough the slot 0; and then flattened against the loop 1 behind the wall 3 to be covered bythe metal of the walls 3 and 5when the sealis pressed. The pressed seal in any of its forms does not difler in appearance from other seals in which like shackles are used, and is not therefore shown in the drawings.

In the modification represented by Fig. 7 a pair of anchoring-loops 1 and 2 on the respective ends of the shackle A are admitted through the wall 3 by a closed slot a, parallel with the back of the recess 4, the outer Wall 5 having an open embrasure I), as above described, into which the shanks of the shackle ends drop. The anchoring-loop 1 in this arrangement is secured against withdrawal in the seal as it leaves the factoryby local pressure on the wall 3, closing that end of the slot a, as represented in Fig. 7.

In Fig. 8 the seal is substantially identical with the form shown-in Fig. 7, except that the anchoring-loop 1 of the shackle A is fastened within the wall 5, but not behind the transverse wall 3. It may be thus located by casting the lead on the wire or in the manner hereinafter described with reference to Fig. 12.

In Figs. 9 and 10 the walls 3 and 5 are both provided with closed slots at and b, parallel with the back of the recess 4. In Fig. 9 both of the anchoring-loops 1 and 2 are threaded through both slots in preparing the seal for the press, the loop 1 being preliminarily fastened in place by local pressure on the wall 3, as in Fig. 7. In Fig. 10 the loop 1 is located within the wall 5, but not behind the wall 3, and is preliminarily fastened in place by local pressure on the wall 5 over the slot b.

In Fig. 11 the transverse wall 3 does not connect with the main wall 5, and a seal otherwise identical with the form shown in Fig. 9.

is represented.

In Fig. 12 theseal part B is of the horseshoe shape shown in the drawings forming part of said Patents Nos. 521,137 and 521,758, and is provided with horns d, as set forth in the patent last named. The closed slot a in the transverse wall 3, as shown, is horizontal, and an open embrasure b is formed at the flat edge of the seal part, as in other seals of said horseshoe type. Immediately within this embrasure a rivet-stud 6 provides for preliminarily fastening the shackle-loop 1 against the back of the recess 4 within the outer wall 5 outside of the transverse wall 3. 1

Only one pattern of the shackle A is shown, as this is strongly recommended for general use in such seals; but other forms of anchoring device may be employed-as set forth, for example, in said Patent No. 368,126, Fig. 13. The outer wall 5 is beveled externally in all the species for a like reason; but this is not an essential feature, and other like modifications will suggest themselves to those skilled in the art.

Having thus described said improvement, I claim as my invention and desire to patent under this specification- 1. A compressible seal part having a central recess in its face and a transverse wall located centrally within such recess and provided with a closed slot, in combination with a flexible shackle of suitable wire preliminarily fastened within said seal part at one end and provided at its other extremity with a rigid anchoring-loop adapted to be passed into and through said slot, and thus located and retained within said recess preparatory to the pressing operation.

2. The combinatiomin a seal, of a compressible seal part having a central recess in its face and a central transverse wall within said recess provided with a closed slot perpendicular to the back of the recess, and a flexible shackle of suitable wire provided at both ends with rigid anchoring-loops, one of which is preliminarily fastened down against said back and the other is passed through and interlocked with said wall preparatory to the pressing operation, substantially as hereinbefore specified.

EDWARD J. BROOKS. 

